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In the US, rats could soon have better birth control access than women | Arwa Mahdawi

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Eric Adams has spent the bulk of his time as mayor of New York trying to wangle criminally cheap business class tickets from Turkish Airlines .

But he has also spent a lot of time thinking about the city's rodent problem.

The city council recently greenlit pilot schemes to deploy ContraPest , a type of rodent birth control.

The irony that New York is investing in rodent contraceptives at a time when women's access to reproductive services across the US is under fire.

One in 25 women in India have faced sexual violence from their husbands.

Nothing happens to most of these men because marital rape is not a criminal offence in India .

Campaigners have been petitioning India ’s supreme court to try and change this but have faced resistance from the government.

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